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Tales of goodness in troubled times ]]>http://www.westport-news.com/sandy/article/Tales-of-goodness-in-troubled-times-4025055.php
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The freight-train wind cocombined with a midnight high tide on Long Island Sound, a tide already swollen by the tug of a full moon, to accomplish a disastrous breach of the shoreline -- every one of its nooks, crannies, inlets, coves and harbors. Salt water spilled freely into any low-lying area -- home basements and utility substations, just to mention two -- destroying furnaces, electric power boxes and the precious belongings of a lifetime: photo albums, scrapbooks, Christmas decorations. The storm was an equal opportunity scourge, an indiscriminate leveler, darkening neighborhoods and spreading pain from the elegant enclave of Old Greenwich to the clogged blocks of Bridgeport's East End. [...] just as the storm spread its misery around our towns, soaking and darkening our world, sapping spirit, so did it stir people to step up in ways big and small. Just when we think, especially at the tail end of months of rancorous political campaigning, that no one seems to have any tolerance for anyone, a better part of the human spirit took over in little corners all around. When we tracked him down, we learned he was Al Menillo, an inspector in the Fire Marshal's office who was due to retire on Nov. 2, just days, as it would happen, after the barrage of Hurricane Sandy. ]]>
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